Word: clove
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baked tomatoes, ½ Ib. of baked sesame seed, 2 oz. of shelled peanuts browned in fat, 2 slices of French bread browned in fat, 2 oz. of toasted pumpkin seeds, 3½ oz. of shelled toasted almonds, ½Ib. of chocolate,1 teaspoon of black pepper, 4 or 5 cloves, ½ oz. of raisins, one clove of roasted garlic, one roasted onion...
...mostly Britons, with an eager edge of Greeks. For the first time the Royal Hellenic Air Force, built up in the Middle East, was taking part in a full-dress Allied attack on the Nazi-held homeland. Across the sun-flecked Mediterranean the light bombers and long-range fighters clove a path to Crete...
...like the torpedo that smashed into the U.S.S. Kearny, in a wave of excited decision. After counseling with Wendell Willkie, Republican Senators Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Warren Austin of Vermont and Chan Gurney of South Dakota introduced an amendment to repeal the Neutrality Act in its entirety. This clove the Senate G.O.P. down to its muddled brisket, completely took the play away from such Democratic fire-eaters as Carter Glass of Virginia, Claude Pepper of Florida, Josh Lee of Oklahoma, who were preparing to do the same thing...
...cruiser Helle dropped anchor off the Aegean island port of Tinos, carrying an official delegation to participate in the celebration of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and bathe in the holy waters of that island. At 8:30, while crowds of celebrants strolled the harbor front, a torpedo clove the water beside the warship, exploded against a breakwater. A second torpedo missed the Helle and exploded before the village. A third found its mark, burst in the Helle's boiler room. The Helle sank an hour and 15 minutes later. Casualties: nine dead (one of heart failure...